Brando's
greatest performance as a longshoreman challenging the power of the
docker's union.

Winner of 8 Academy Awards.

Kazan's untouchable portrayal of Mafia
brutality and menace

This is why Brando's considered one of the best

Brando's the greatest

On The Waterfront
directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon
Brando and Karl Malden

Reviewers

In 1954, acclaimed director Elia Kazan collaborated with one of the finest
musicians of the time, Leonard Bernstein, and possibly the most gifted and
versatile actors in screen history, Marlon Brando to create a film of
nearly unmatchable power and disturbing realism.
"On the Waterfront" tells the emotional story of an ex-boxer, Terry
Malloy (Brando), who, after seeing the immoral and deeply wrong nature of
the mafia he is working for, realises the value of life and freedom and
sets about to bring the organisation down.

A superb performance on Brando's part as well as the film's supporting
actors: Eva Marie Saint, who plays the attractive young nun, Edie, who
convinces Malloy to listen to his conscience and eventually find his
admirable view on life: Rod Steiger, who plays Malloy's brother, Charley
The Gent, who shares the fantastic taxi scene with Brando, in which the
relationship of the two brothers is seen in its real light: Karl Malden,
who plays the creditable town priest whose goal from the outset is to
persuade the workers at the dock to rise up against the mafia and expose
their evil ways: and Lee J. Cobb, who plays mafia leader, Johnny Friendly
whose ruthless and barbaric personality is mirrored perfectly in Cobbs
performance.

Eight Oscars very well earned and an essential and truly brilliant
films in the life of cinema, which even houses one of the most famous and
emotive screen lines ever "I coulda been a contender." This immortal line
encapsulates the magnificence and power of one the greatest films in
history.